Climate change and human health: Risks and Responses

Submitted by andrea on Tue, 2010-08-17 06:04
Author(s):
A.J. McMichael, D.H. Campbell-Lendrum, C.F. Corvalán, K.L. Ebi, A.K. Githeko, J.D. Scheraga, and A. Woodward
Year:
2003
Editor:
World Health Organization
City:
Geneva
Pages:
333
Summary:

There is now widespread consensus that the Earth is warming at a rate unprecedented during post hunter-gatherer human existence. The last decade was the warmest since instrumental records began in the nineteenth century, and contained 9 of the 10 warmest years ever recorded. The causes of this change are increasingly well understood.

Summary: Climate change and human health - risks and responses

Submitted by andrea on Mon, 2010-01-04 09:29
Author(s):
World Health Organization
Year:
2003
City:
Geneva
Pages:
38
Summary:

This booklet is a summary of the book Climate Change and Human Health - Risks and Responses, published by WHO in collaboration with UNEP and WMO. The complete volume seeks to describe the context and process of global climate change, its actual or likely impacts on health, and how human societies and their governments should respond, with particular focus on the health sector.